SIX OF THE BEST… rules for naming your characters
With NaNoWriMo just around the corner, I'm sure many of the writers in the crowd are working up their outlines and prepping for the marathon task of writing at least 1667 words per day through [...]
SIX OF THE WORST… things about the new Wonder Woman movie
Buckle up, nerds, because I'm about to shatter your illusions about the "awesome" new Wonder Woman movie that hit theaters last week. There will be spoilers aplenty. If you haven't seen the film and don't [...]
SIX OF THE WORST… Great Lakes Avengers
The Avengers are great, right? Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch... they're pretty awesome. But if you expand outward from the MCU, you get into a situation where you have... let's just [...]
The last list on the left…
I hate list articles. You know what I'm talking about. If you don't then you must be an iliterate living under a rock that's inside a steel safe, dropped into the ocean and currently residing [...]
Escape from escapism doesn’t lead to reality…
Films and TV shows aren't real. Well, except documentaries and the news. Sports shown on TV are kind of real too, assuming they haven't been rigged. Reality shows... well, they're sort of real, or at [...]
John Constantine: The HECKblazer OR Just Another Nail In The New 52’s Coffin
It has recently been announced that DC/Vertigo would be canceling the long running and well loved series “John Constantine: Hellblazer”. The news saddened me as this is one of my favorite all time series and, [...]
How Joss Whedon Changed my Outlook on Film (or Why I Saw the Avengers Six Times at the Theater)
This article originally ran on Smartly Sarah’s personal blog on June 19th, 2012, and gained recognition when Tom Hiddleston (Loki himself!) read and responded to it on Twitter. We’re re-running it today to celebrate the [...]